Greetings from Ausralia

[TrevorL]

This is my first Post after registering recently. My main aim in joining is to discuss the Bible and the Gospel of Christ. I hope to learn by interaction with other believers. I have a special interest in various books of the Bible, such as Psalms, Isaiah and Galatians and if I see any discussion on these I would at least read and possibly discuss what is on this thread.

I enjoy collecting books and have an extensive library of general interest books, but also like Bible reference books and similar resources.

Kind regards
Trevor

[Alan Swallows Waiting for Email Confirmation]

Re: Greetings from Australia

Guten morgen, mate!

I'm new here too. Welcome. Have you looked at the Bible in a year forum? I don't think they've got up to Galatians yet but you'll find some enlightening commentary on the Psalms and Isaiah in there.

Anyway I'm always happy to discuss the Bible with people.

BTW what church is it you go to?

[Back against wall]

Re: Greetings from Australia

This is my first Post after registering

Welcome young lady. Which part of Austria are you from exactly?

Brother BAW.

The introduction forum Attention Unsaved Trash: This the ONLY subforum you can start threads in. Here is where you introduce yourself. Tell us what church you go to and what your favorite Bible verse is and how you came to find Jesus.

[Youth Minister Harry]

Re: Greetings from Australia

Well Howdy Howdy Hoo there Trevor! How old are you? What grade are you in? Do you like sports? I enjoy water sports myself. Welcome to God's Favorite Forums(tm)! I just KNOW Christ Jesus led you here with an important purpose! Hallelujah!

[I Man Rastafari]

Re: Greetings from Australia

Greetings Trevor. I am also Trevor and I am from an island too. I am not at my home of Jamaica as I have come here to Babylon to advance my education. These Baptists are white people and they keep this web site for communications between Christians. I am Christian and Rastafari. Are you a Christian? I have heard that people from your country are criminals who were sent to your island as a prison by the English. What crimes have you committed? Is it customary for Christians in your country to stop criminal activity when they become Christians or do they continue? These questions are of interest to me because I am conducting a study of white people while I am in Babylon.

Jah Guide
Trevor

[TrevorL]

Re: Greetings from Australia

Greetings Alan, BAW, YMH and Trevor (IMR),

I appreciate your responses.

I'm new here too. Welcome. Have you looked at the Bible in a year forum? I don't think they've got up to Galatians yet but you'll find some enlightening commentary on the Psalms and Isaiah in there.

Anyway I'm always happy to discuss the Bible with people.

BTW what church is it you go to?

I will look at the Bible in a year forum – sounds interesting. I do not belong to a “church” as such, but fellowship with those of like mind, who believe the Gospel of Christ. Salvation is by belief of this gospel and through the Name of Jesus Christ Romans 1:1-3,16-17, Acts 4:7-12, 8:5,12.

Welcome Tell us … what your favorite Bible verse is and how you came to find Jesus.

Galatians 2:20 (KJV): 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
I came to Jesus gradually in my teenage years and beyond and despite many failures and shortcomings have continued.

Well Howdy Howdy Hoo there Trevor! How old are you? What grade are you in? Do you like sports? I enjoy water sports myself. Welcome to God's Favorite Forums™! I just KNOW Christ Jesus led you here with an important purpose! Hallelujah!

Much older than your Post seems to indicate. I allowed my age to be displayed, but it does not seem to appear.

Greetings Trevor. I am also Trevor and I am from an island too. I am not at my home of Jamaica as I have come here to Babylon to advance my education. These Baptists are white people and they keep this web site for communications between Christians. I am Christian and Rastafari. Are you a Christian? I have heard that people from your country are criminals who were sent to your island as a prison by the English. What crimes have you committed? Is it customary for Christians in your country to stop criminal activity when they become Christians or do they continue? These questions are of interest to me because I am conducting a study of white people while I am in Babylon.

One of my ancestors was a convict going back to 1805, but others that I have heard of were free settlers or migrants on my mother’s side, and my father lost contact with his father when he was 5 (WW1), and his mother when he was 8. He was fostered eventually at the age of 15 to work on a farm for an older couple during the depression and was blessed physically and eventually spiritually.

Kind regards
Trevor

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: Greetings from Australia

Welcome to God's favorite forum! I am glad to see you take the Bible very serious.

I have to say I am surprised you have been able to find a quiet spot and access the internet between all those gay orgies.

[Alan Swallows Waiting for Email Confirmation]

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I will look at the Bible in a year forum – sounds interesting. I do not belong to a “church” as such, but fellowship with those of like mind, who believe the Gospel of Christ.

As a lay pastor of a small home church, I can understand the need to break away from the mainstream when it gets so corrupted with liberal theology that it's just like, "I can't do this anymore!" Was that what it was like for you?

[TrevorL]

Re: Greetings from Australia

Greetings again Alan,

As a lay pastor of a small home church, I can understand the need to break away from the mainstream when it gets so corrupted with liberal theology that it's just like, "I can't do this anymore!" Was that what it was like for you?

I attend a lay fellowship meeting, and this is also in contact and fellowship with other similar meetings, but each has its own particular characteristics. We have visiting speakers from some of these that are selected carefully. There is some ebb and flow of people and ideas, but my particular meeting attempts to maintain reasonable standards in all aspects in a warm and friendly manner.

I am not one of our appointed speakers, except in recent years I gave half a Bible Class on Psalm 8 and a full Bible Class on Isaiah 12 though I spent a fair amount of time on Isaiah 1-12, 40-53 as an introduction. Psalm 8 is my favourite Psalm and Isaiah 6 is now my favourite chapter as I find it interesting and challenging. Psalm 8 and Isaiah 6 are quoted and expounded in the NT, and this exposition is thus Divinely inspired and an understanding of both the OT and NT usage helps to fill out the picture.

My parents brought me up in my present fellowship, but I have tested or tasted various other groups and churches, but found no real satisfaction in these. I also attended a lunch-time Bible meeting with a Catholic (for a short time), a Baptist and 3 Pentecostals over a few years. My view of fellowship is very personal, taking say Isaiah 6 as an example, where one has to be reconciled and at one with God, and seriously humbled by this contact with the Holiness of the Divine and God’s purpose and work in the earth. This fellowship with God once established on a personal basis is then shared with others who have similar beliefs and dedication to the things of God.

Kind regards
Trevor

[Alan Swallows Waiting for Email Confirmation]

Re: Greetings from Australia

Psalm 8 and Isaiah 6 are quoted and expounded in the NT, and this exposition is thus Divinely inspired and an understanding of both the OT and NT usage helps to fill out the picture.

You're right. Most people find it perplexing that someone could go around healing the sick and raising the dead and yet not make much of an impression. Jesus quoted Isaiah 6 to explain why. God had blinded people to His miracles so that they wouldn't be converted or healed.

John 12:37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
John 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
John 12:39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Lucky we're special enough to see the truth.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: Greetings from Austria

This is my first Post after registering recently. My main aim in joining is to discuss the Bible and the Gospel of Christ. I hope to learn by interaction with other believers. I have a special interest in various books of the Bible, such as Psalms, Isaiah and Galatians and if I see any discussion on these I would at least read and possibly discuss what is on this thread.

I enjoy collecting books and have an extensive library of general interest books, but also like Bible reference books and similar resources.

Kind regards
Trevor

Welcome to God's favourite forum! We are one of the friendliest forums on the Inter Nets (and for my money, the best).

It's always nice to hear from people from a different culture (I was very sorry to hear about Falco's death: a real tragedy to music).

What are your country's stance on the tricky subject of the homersexualistically oriented agenda?

We are plagued with them.

YIC

[Alphonse Alban]

Re: Greetings from Austria

Guten Tag and willcommen!

How do you feel about that your famous countryman has started going crazy on his golden years?

Here’s the text of Schwarzenegger’s head-on challenge to his doubters:


I see your questions.
Each and every time I post on my Facebook page or tweet about my crusade for a clean energy future, I see them.
There are always a few of you, asking why we should care about the temperature rising, or questioning the science of climate change.
I want you to know that I hear you. Even those of you who say renewable energy is a conspiracy. Even those who say climate change is a hoax. Even those of you who use four letter words.
I’ve heard all of your questions, and now I have three questions for you.
Let’s put climate change aside for a minute. In fact, let’s assume you’re right.
First – do you believe it is acceptable that 7 million people die every year from pollution? That’s more than murders, suicides, and car accidents – combined.
Every day, 19,000 people die from pollution from fossil fuels. Do you accept those deaths? Do you accept that children all over the world have to grow up breathing with inhalers?
Now, my second question: do you believe coal and oil will be the fuels of the future?
Besides the fact that fossil fuels destroy our lungs, everyone agrees that eventually they will run out. What’s your plan then?
I, personally, want a plan. I don’t want to be like the last horse and buggy salesman who was holding out as cars took over the roads. I don’t want to be the last investor in Blockbuster as Netflix emerged.
That’s exactly what is going to happen to fossil fuels.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-arnold-schwarzeneggers-epic-rant-about-climate-change-2015-12

Arnold a hippie! Who would have thought that he believes the lies of the lieberal media. Of course oil is harmless and it can't run out. God will aways create some more if needed.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Greetings from Austria

Welcome Trevor (I can call you Trevor, as I figured that is your name, right?)
So Trevor, while I can appreciate a man making choices in life, liking a porterhouse over a Filet, I cannot get my head around any person thinking that one part of the Bible is better than another or carries more significance. Perhaps I missed the section in the KJV where it states "The following is optional."

How many sons have been expressed from the loins of your wife?
What do you do about the ongoing abo problem?
Whne did you realize it was Jesus touching you and relieving all that pent up angst? I was about 12 and having His grip on my hardened soul, pulling the demons from within me in an eruption of feverish glory was indescribable.

[TrevorL]

Re: Greetings from Austria

Greetings again Alan, and Greetings Dr Laurence Niles, Alphonse Alban and James Hutchins,

You're right. Most people find it perplexing that someone could go around healing the sick and raising the dead and yet not make much of an impression. Jesus quoted Isaiah 6 to explain why. God had blinded people to His miracles so that they wouldn't be converted or healed.

Yes John 12 is a strong link with Isaiah 6, and it is significant that Isaiah 53, the end result of the process started in Isaiah 6 is also united here in John’s record. I believe that the Jews failure to see and hear and their hardness of heart were a gradual process. The following is a suggestion of this process of decline and hardening:
1. Their failure to listen and respond to such teaching as Matthew 5-7.
2. Their failure to properly respond and be humbled by the miracles Matthew 11:20-24.
3. Their failure to seek the meaning of the parables and respond in a teachable way Matthew 13:10-16.
4. Their failure to respond in a single-minded way at the end of his public ministry as detailed in John 12, in contrast to the sincere response of the Greeks.
5. The fullness of their rejection when they crucified our Lord.
6. The failure of most of the Jews at Rome to respond Acts 28.

Lucky we're special enough to see the truth.

I believe that a similar process happened in Isaiah’s day and despite appearances is happening today. I was a bit disappointed at some of the comments on Isaiah 6 in the Bible in a year forum.

Dr Laurence: Concerning your question, the Scriptures give a comparison between the life and choices of Abraham and Lot. I would prefer to be in the company and fellowship of Abraham. Some of my favourite verses were given to Abraham after Lot separated from him, and Paul’s comments are significant:
Genesis 13:14-15 (KJV): 14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Galatians 3:8,16,26-29 (KJV): 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Also the comments by Paul in Romans 1 are appropriate. I also believe that we should move out of the negative environment of Romans 7 whenever possible and replace it with the Romans 8 environment, especially considering and espousing the basis, the teaching and all-embracing sentiments of Romans 8:1-3.

How do you feel about that your famous countryman has started going crazy on his golden years?

The title of this thread has been altered or corrupted only in the last few Posts #11-13 and also appears now in Post #1. But if you look at the earlier Posts #2-10 they state the original thread title “Greetings from Australia”. Possibly the Administrators or Moderators could correct this.

So Trevor, while I can appreciate a man making choices in life, liking a porterhouse over a Filet, I cannot get my head around any person thinking that one part of the Bible is better than another or carries more significance. Perhaps I missed the section in the KJV where it states "The following is optional."

I read the entire Bible and seek to grow in understanding, but over the years I have come to understand some portions better than others. Perhaps this selection has been because of my limited capacity or dedication, but if I asked you to give a brief but comprehensive summary of Psalm 8, Isaiah 6 and Galatians could you respond. Take an obscure feature: Why did the Seraphim cover his face with one pair of wings, his feet with another pair of wings and with the other pair fly? Most probably you could ask me how I understand other portions of the Scriptures and I would have difficulty.

What do you do about the ongoing abo problem?
Whne did you realize it was Jesus touching you and relieving all that pent up angst? I was about 12 and having His grip on my hardened soul, pulling the demons from within me in an eruption of feverish glory was indescribable.

The reserve land of a few acres near us was granted to a local tribe and the government built them a duplex housing, and a family or two of Aboriginal descent has occupied this some ten years ago. They have been good neighbours. My contact and involvement and identification with Jesus was and is a gradual process and I could list a few defining moments in my teen years and a few times of crisis and failure. I was baptised by immersion in water at 21 years after a belief and confession of the gospel Acts 8:5,12.

Kind regards
Trevor

[Alan Swallows Waiting for Email Confirmation]

Re: Greetings from Austria

Yes John 12 is a strong link with Isaiah 6, and it is significant that Isaiah 53, the end result of the process started in Isaiah 6 is also united here in John’s record. I believe that the Jews failure to see and hear and their hardness of heart were a gradual process. The following is a suggestion of this process of decline and hardening:
1. Their failure to listen and respond to such teaching as Matthew 5-7.
2. Their failure to properly respond and be humbled by the miracles Matthew 11:20-24.
3. Their failure to seek the meaning of the parables and respond in a teachable way Matthew 13:10-16.
4. Their failure to respond in a single-minded way at the end of his public ministry as detailed in John 12, in contrast to the sincere response of the Greeks.
5. The fullness of their rejection when they crucified our Lord.
6. The failure of most of the Jews at Rome to respond Acts 28.

Are we reading the same Bible?

John 12:39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Who is He? It's God who blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts so they couldn't believe.

I propose the following process of decline and hardening:

1. Jesus spoke in parables so that people wouldn't understand. He did not want their sins to be forgiven.
   
   

   Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
   Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

2. God hardened people's hearts so that they wouldn't believe the miracles of Jesus because He didn't want to heal them (John 12:39-40).
   
3. After blinding people to the truth right in front of them, God will punish them for eternity for not seeing it.
   
   

   Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

   Note that this parable comes right after Jesus quote from Isaiah 6.

I was a bit disappointed at some of the comments on Isaiah 6 in the Bible in a year forum.

What didn't you like about them?

I also believe that we should move out of the negative environment of Romans 7 whenever possible and replace it with the Romans 8 environment, especially considering and espousing the basis, the teaching and all-embracing sentiments of Romans 8:1-3.

Why? It's all God's word.

Second Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.